Groups Trips & Events Made Easy

GoBananas - Social Travel App

Everybody knows how hard it is to organise a groups of people!

We make it easy! Gather the group, ask what people want, find & reserve, Book and split payments. Easy-Peasy!

Social is More than Selfies

In a world of social travel, here's one that you can actually DO something with!

In a social world where you can message, snapchat, tweet just about anybody, you would think that there would be an easy way to get a group together, make some decisions and then go off and have some fun. Normally the only tool in your arsenal is a spreadsheet, your email and the phone. With those three you have to herd all the cats, chase people for decisions and money and just hope that no one pulls out at the last minute leaving you to pay their costs. Our system takes care of managing the group, finding things to do, booking them and making sure that everyone pays their way and gets to the right place time. Sweet!

Understanding Groups

Every group is different and yet every group is the same.

Groups are different for a varity of human reasons. The people in the group have different hopes and fears as well as different expectations about the outcome. How that plays out within the group situation depends on many different factors. Groups are the same when it comes to the process. Every group has to go through the same steps to get the job done. It doesn't matter whether it is an extended holiday or just an event for one night.

We are solving the problem of gathering and organising groups of people who want to do things together!

You can ask your group for dates, budgets, activities. You can even include real products for them to vote on.

Different group types need different products. You can filter our search by different criteria to surface exactly the right products for your group

We break all the costs between the members of the group so the organiser does not need to risk or burn their credit card

Our system supports over 100 different product types. Each has business rules ensuring that they all add right for the customer's itinerary

Talk to us by email, phone, whatsapp, SMS, live chat or facebook. It is all integrated into our system!

We can package up a whole weekend into one price

We give organisers lots of time to get their numbers sorted out before the final confirmation.

We divide our customers into different group types so we can display itineraries in different ways and talk with them in different tones of voice.

You can pay it all in one go or you can pay little by little.

We offer every travel and event product you need to make a complete weekend or just a night out. We can combine them all into different packages so organisers to sell into their group members/

What we Offer

The GoBananas Difference

We specialise in groups. We dream about groups. We read about groups. That's our thing! We are not about product types, but how we can help groups of people have amazing, memorable experiences.

A lot of travel companies are all about selling rooms or flights. We sell amazing memories to people who spend too much on their time on their own so they can share their lives with friends!

We don't believe in offices in Shoredich or Manhattan. We believe in local knowledge and contacts so we can craft crazy good times for our customers.

Our homemade software system was designed from the ground-up to support the group customer journey.

We don't just sell beds or single products. We offer every type of activity you can think of from the adventurous to the interesting. We have something for literally anybody!

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Main Office

9 Reform Street Blairgowrie, PH10 6BD

+44 7795 181 553

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We are GoBananas

One big family being super creative.

Founded in 2003

People are happy when they are with other people. Social Networking does not make us happy - it just makes us lonely! We need to gather our friends around us and make things happen that mean something and which we will remember for ever. We don't remember Facebook posts or Instagram stories. What we remember is the laughter, the hugs, the silliness and the moments we hug each other! That is what GoBananas is about - bananas come in bunches and so do humans!

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Understanding Groups

Every group is different and yet every group is the same.


Groups are different for a varity of human reasons. The people in the group have different hopes and fears as well as different expectations about the outcome. How that plays out within the group situation depends on many different factors.

Groups are the same when it comes to the process. Every group has to go through the same steps to get the job done. It doesn't matter whether it is an extended holiday or just an event for one night.

Read more: Understanding Groups

Case Study

Xmas Party

Building the concept

Once upon a time, companies would organise and pay for Christmas parties. Today, it is becoming more and more common for companies to take a hands off approach to the party and simply contribute an amount towards the final cost. It is left to members of staff to choose and coordinate the Christmas party. For the staff members involved, this is a thankless task as they try to coordinate all the different members of their department or the company to agree on the sort of party they want. Furthermore, companies are growing increasingly stingy about the amount they will contribute and very often individual members of staff have to cough up a little more cash to get the party they want. Our system allows those unlucky staff who are doing the organising to get everybody on board and to choose the most popular option for the party. The budget, the restaurant and the date can lead to a highly charged debate until they arrive at a consensus. What our system does is to poll the staff and then book the restaurant or venue at the agreed time. It will then collect that little bit extra that may be required. Ho Ho Ho!

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Making Group Travel Easy is Complex

Your group needs to do a lot to make sure that everything works!

When groups of people organise themselves, they use lots of different tools: phone calls, messaging, sitting in the pub or a meeting. They need to keep track of everything whether it is important or trivial. Sometimes they need to keep it private and sometimes they need to share with everybody. Frequently, they need to sell the ideas into the group as well so that people don't drop out.


1
Build Your Group & Track RSVPs

Step 1 is always getting people to subscribe to your event however small or large it is. Even if it is just a night out, you can find out who is in and out!

2
Get Others involved in the Decision Making

You can set up polls to share with your group so everybody agrees on when, where, how much and what you are going to do. In our experience everybody falls in with the majority view.

3
Finding Things to Do

With 5000+ things to do and places in stay, we have something for everyone. You won't have to trawl through all of them since you can filter for location, party type or just use our inspirational tags - want to look good to your mates? We got you covered.

4
Check Availability and Hold

Plans have a habit of changing which is why we try to be as flexible as possible for you. We don't make you book everything straight away, you can hold things until all your plans are in place and then we do all the grunt work managing bookings and the details

5
Getting Help

The system supports lots of ways to contact us or the originating supplier. You can message or phone to ask about vegan food or wheel chair access of whatever.

6
The Devil is in the Detail

Many of our activities come with little extras that you can book at the same time or afterwards.

7
Managing Payments

You don't have to put it all on one credit card. You can share payments across the groups and our system will keep track of them and prompt the late payers.

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Build & Store the Whole Itinerary

Your whole itinerary is stored and shared together with contact details and directions. You can add extra things to do to the calendar and keep track of things through a to do list